Elusiva terminal services for Windows XP: Terminal Server Enterprise offers concurrent licensing (Part 2 of 2)
Thursday, 22 July 2010 10:28
Jeremy Pollard
In the previous column, we talked about the terminal services (TS) methodology, Elusiva's Terminal Server Pro, and the concepts of terminal server services, RDP thin clients, and running applications in a TS environment. Running applications and desktops in a TS environment has many advantages as previously described. Should you be using a remote desktop client, then you would log into the system as a user, and the full desktop for that user is presented. You have access to the resources that the administrator gave to you. In any industrial environment, you may want to have local and remote...
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Elusiva terminal services for Windows XP: Saves energy, money and time (Part 1 of 2)
Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:27
Jeremy Pollard
Energy management, non-renewable resources, peak oil, energy costs and just about "green" anything are popular buzzwords right now. Computers aren't immune to this environmental revolution - they consume piles of joules that cost money to use, and money to generate. You know "thin" is in - and "fat" is officially out - when Google gets on board. And that's just what the IT giant did when it re-designed its server farms to save energy - and ended up trimming $50 million annually from its budget. Terminal services (TS) were once the platform and domain of all IT...
VMware Player goes virtual
Wednesday, 21 July 2010 14:27
Jeremy Pollard
My customers use a lot of Rockwell Automation products. As with most industrial sites, and processes, the equipment is older and uses less-than-recent software revisions. Microsoft and Intel have continued to provide us with development and maintenance platforms that are awesome for what we do, but as always, we have no way of going back. The compatibility issue is huge since we may be using software from the '90s. With Windows 7 on just about every desktop and laptop, if you thought you couldn't upgrade your hardware because of the software you use - you'd be wrong. Man, this thing is cool...
Software for the future: New technologies will be driven by new software, so be prepared
Wednesday, 24 February 2010 13:19
Jeremy Pollard
Ten Years After: a rock group that performed at Woodstock, with Alvin Lee as an up-and-coming guitar player. Who’d have known, come 2009, that anyone would remember 40 years into the past? Well, we do. So 10 years from now, where will we be and what technology will we be using in software? One thing for sure is that you will not be in the job you are in today. The skills required to remain in the industry will be wide ranging, and you will probably need some level of certification. I have pontificated before on certain technologies only to be shot down by a lack of enthusiasm of the...
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FreeProxy network manager: Software controls users’ access to shared resources
Monday, 26 October 2009 09:16
Jeremy Pollard
Cyber security and rogue plant floor applications are made for each other. One tries to get to places while the other tries to stop them. Sounds like parents with teenagers. But I assure you it is more than that. A proxy server is a software application that resides on a computer in your network. Previous proxy “servers” — a word that can be misinterpreted because it can mean hardware or software — needed to be run on a server-based operating system platform. In this case, the FreeProxy software can run on any Windows-based operating system, although it hasn’t...
Network monitoring software that gives you the whole picture
Monday, 06 October 2008 00:00
Jeremy Pollard
I have to admit that when I started this review of IntraVUE network monitoring and configuration software, I was a bit skeptical about a product claimed it could map out your plant floor network and find issues based on a network tool called "ping." I also wondered where the value was in a product that can cost you upwards of $4,000 to be able to see pretty boxes. Now that I have seen the software, I know! IntraVUE is a below-the-surface network tool that can help any company that has a layered network see and hear their devices, which can then allow the support team to better...
Software for the mind: A book review of the IEC 61499 function block standard
Monday, 15 September 2008 00:00
Jeremy Pollard
While this book is primarily written for academia and for course study, it can very well suit some control engineers and some process guys to allow them to learn more about the IEC 61499 standard. So, for those who have no idea what IEC 61499 is or how it can help you, this book can answer most of your questions. This IEC standard, as author Valeriy Vyatkin states in the introduction to IEC 61499 Function Blocks for Embedded and Distributed Control Systems Design, was in development for more than 10 years. It was developed as an answer to the question, “How do I protect my intellectual...
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